90 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



comose. Suberect or scandeut sliiubs [Bredemei/era\ or oftener siifFni- 

 tesccut herbs erect or yolubile {Eucomcsperma) ; leaves alternate, 

 iisually small [Eiicomespcnna) or ovate, oblong, wido, subcoriaceous 

 penuiuerved (5yr(7«Hfyera); flowers in simple or ramified racemes. 

 {Trop. America. \_BrcdcmciJcra'^\ Australia.") 



7. Seciiridaca L.^ — Flowers nearly of Poh/gala ; sepals 2, very 

 large, wiugshaped subpetaloid. Petals of Polyçiula ; the lateral often 

 joined to the keel. Stamens 8 (of Pohjgala). Germen 2-locnlar ; 

 one cell often very small, empty ; the other 1-ovnlate. Fruit indé- 

 hiscent, coriaceous or ligneous, often cristate at base, at apex pro- 

 duced in a wing, elongated rarely short [Corytholohimu'^)., sometimes 

 much dilated above [Lophosti/Iis^] often narrow at base (samaroid); 

 seed 1, exarillate, cxalbuminous ; cotyledons of straight embryo, 

 thick-fleshy ; radicle very short, retracted between them. — Shrubs 

 often scandent ; leaves alternate, usually entire, 2-glandular ; flowers 

 in terminal and axillary racemes, simple or compound, sometimes 

 short, rarely fascicnlate-2-chotomous {Corytholobium). [All ivarm 

 regions (^except Australia.^) 



8. Carpolobia G. Don.^ — Flowers nearly of Polijgala', lateral 

 sepals larger. Petals 5, connate in a corolla cut at back ; the anterior 

 carinate, concave-galeate, entire or shortly cristate at apex. Stamens 5, 

 connate at base in a sheath cut at back, and outwardly adnate to 

 corolla ; autherlcss filaments sometimes 1-3 ; anthers dehiscing 

 obliquely inwards. Germen thickly stipitate, .3-locular. Other 

 characters of Pol //gala. Fruit fleshy, subglobosc ; seeds 1-3, exaril- 



' Spec, about 10, A. S. H. Fl. Bras. Mer. ii. ii. 03. 

 t. 90, 01. — PiKrp. et Endl. Nov. Gen. et. Spec. ° Hochst. in Flora (1842), 229.— A. Rich. 



iii. t. 273 (Catoconm).— Tit. et. Pl. in A/iii. Sn. Ft. Abyss. Tent. i. 39, t. 10. 



Xiit. scr. 4, xvii. 133 (Catacoma), — Harsk. in '' jAca. Amer. t. 183.— Deless. le. Se/, iii. 



Aim. Mus. Liiyd.-Sat. i. 1S7.— Wali'. Itep. i. t. 22.— A. S. H. Fl. Bras. Mer. ii. 67, t. OC— 



213; V. 614. Guiseh. Fl. Brit. W.-Iiid. 20; Cat. PI. Cub. 



' Spec, about 20 ; Deless. Ic. Sel. iii. t. 20. — 14. — Hassk. in aMus. Lngd.-Bat. i. 190. — Hook. 



F. Muell. Fl. Vict. t. 8.— Benth. Fl. AuUrnl. p. Fl. Brit. Ind. i. 207.— Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. 



i. 141. — Walp. ^i««. ii. 82; vii. 251. i. 134. — Benth. Fl. Hongkong. 45. — Mia. Fl. 



3 Gen. n. 852.— J. Gen. 366.— Pom. /)irf. viii. Iml.-But. i. p. ii. 128 {Lophnstglis).—Tn.et Pl. 



So ; Suppl. V. 124.— Lamk. III. t. 599.— DC. in Ann. Sc. Nat. scr. 4, xvii. 134.— Walp. Sep. 



Frndr. i. 340.— A. S. H. et Moa. in Mém. Mus. i. 246 (part.) ; v. 67 ; Ann.'i. 75 ; ii. 86 j iv. 240 ; 



xvii. 354, t. 31 ; xix. 335.— SpACH, Suit, à Buffon, vii. 253. 



vii. 148.— Endl. Oc'». n. 5653.— B. H. Gf«. 138, ^ Oen. Si/st. i. 370 (part.).— Endl. Gen. n. 



974, n. 9. — Rod.'chicdiuMid. in Zinnœa, xviii. 5655; Supjil. iii. 9G.— B. II. Gen. 139, 974, 



585. n. 11. 



* Makt. ex Benth. in Ann. Mn.i. Tindob. 



